Arod in San Francisco

The Moon on a dark background.

Last night's Moon. 23 March 2024. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography

Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies at 78 His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion, extortion and two terms in prison.

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/a...

Another wow crazy for sure. I hadn’t thought about this guy for years

The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave Mickey Barreto’s five-year stay cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom.

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/n...

Wow. Crazy

First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones The N.Y.U. professor Jonathan Haidt became a favorite in Silicon Valley for his work on what he called the “coddling” of young people. Now, he has an idea for fixing Gen Z.

www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/b...

Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden's exchange during Hunter Biden’s hearing yesterday is FIRE.

This awesome study shows what every gay man already knows—that gay men change the way they speak to sound more or less gay depending on the social situation.... gay voice

Cool video on gay speech. I love finding myself in a big group of gay guys because of the speech ... happens every year on the two AIDS bike rides I do, AIDS/LifeCYcle and especially on the Toronto-Montreal Bike Rally. Subscribe to this guy ... fascinating stuff. youtu.be/t75pdg2VyCU?...

Stephen Fry: ‘I was never cute – I’ve got better looking as I’ve got older’ As Britain’s pre-eminent brainbox voices Leonardo da Vinci in new stopmotion film The Inventor, he answers readers’ questions on dinner parties, trivia quizzes and getting old

sweet conversation with one of my faves, Stephen Fry - www.theguardian.com/film/2024/fe...

Long-buried Atlas statue raised to guard Temple of Zeus in Sicily once more Eight-metre statue dating from fifth century BC restored and assembled piece-by-piece to be displayed in Valley of the Temples

Impressive ... but a little irony ... in the foreground of the second picture is a field of Oxalis, aka wood sorrel, which is a weed that infests my garden every winter. I spend many happy hours pulling it up lest it strangle everything else. - www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

Ray Davis grew up homeless, now he seeks to be a 'name you'll remember forever' He is two months away from hearing his name called at the NFL Draft, but that's not what Davis is most proud of.

Tears well up - theathletic.com/5293529/2024...

Aesthetics Wiki

See also the tragicomic and deeply depressing "Aesthetics Wiki", something that evidently never bothered to consider what aesthetics really is.

aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthet...

Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids. Gorgeous, abundant visuals are just pale imitations of what young people used to have: an actual scene.

The mile-wide and inch-deep wasteland we, and especially youth, are creating. It all revolves around a wasteland-style search for identity, something you can jump into without effort and use to reject the world.

Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/m...

Exclusive: Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine as the US Responds to Threats Around the Globe How the Navy prowls today’s uncertain seas—and prepares for possible superpower conflict tomorrow.

Fascinating ... www.vanityfair.com/news/life-ab... ... Probably behind a paywall, but Vanity Fair is definitely worth the subscription

Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India Controversy in West Bengal centres around Akbar the lion and Sita, named for a Hindu deity, being placed in the same enclosure

The ludicrous depths of religious sensitivities ... beware lest the new pseudo-religious who hector us daily shame us with the same flavor of tripe ....

Hindu nationalists go to court over lion named after Muslim emperor in India www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

seriously, this is what came up when I searched Shark in my photo

How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World The most powerful countries have benefited from large work forces for decades. What happens when they retire?

How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Young Sheldon’ Ends as It Began: An Underrated Smash As the Big Bang Theory prequel comes to an end, it’s time to stop using its name as a punchline.

‘Young Sheldon’ Ends as It Began: An Underrated Smash www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/you... via @thedailybeast -- always loved this show although I stopped watching it when I cut cable. Excellent analysis in this piece.

Opinion | A superpower of older age: Powerlessness My friend is upset — but only for now.

A superpower of older age: Powerlessness wapo.st/42Eb0YJ -- nice piece. I feel it in my bones

NASA rover finds damaged helicopter in the middle of Mars desert mashable.com/article/mars...